Establishing Eco-compensation System in China: Practice, Problems and Strategies

At present, main objective of Chinese government is building a harmonious society, which needs great efforts to promote harmonious development between people and nature as well as people and people. Implementing eco-compensation has been proven effective for achieving the objective. In fact, Chinese government has begun groping for establishing eco-compensation system since the beginning of 1980's and has obtained some experiences until now. However, eco-compensation system in China is still unperfected and has not played an important role for building a harmonious society and promoting sustainable development in today's China. An integrated and effective methodology system is still not formed, and there are still many problems need to be resolved. Based on these problems and experiences from China and other countries, this study attempts to give some suggestions for perfecting eco-compensation system of Chinese government.